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Aaron Minnick

Bio

Aaron is a project coordinator in the Forests program. Prior to joining the Forests team, he was a project coordinator for EMBARQ's Health and Road Safety program. Aaron now supports the program staff with administrative and operational tasks, as well as directly working on projects in Indonesia and Ethiopia.

Before joining WRI and EMBARQ he worked with the Student Conservation Association as a crew leader, designing, building and maintaining hiking trails in the Sierra Nevada mountains in California. He has also worked as a research consultant for the Rainforest Alliance, updating the SMARTWood database of sustainable wood product companies for North America.

Aaron has lived most of his life overseas, including Niger, Benin, and Bolivia, and has traveled extensively throughout Central and South America. He holds a master’s degree in environmental sciences and policy, with a concentration in environmental management from Johns Hopkins University in Washington D.C., and a bachelor’s degree in business administration from The College of New Jersey, focusing on international business and Spanish.

Blog Posts

The New York Declaration on Forests issued at the UN Climate Summit last month includes a global pledge to restore 350 million hectares of deforested and degraded landscapes by 2030.

Several countries confirmed their commitment to restore millions of hectares of degraded land, with Ethiopia making one of the most significant pledges—setting a target to restore 15 million hectares of degraded and deforested land into productivity by 2025.

Indonesia and Singapore have been bracing themselves in recent weeks as warnings that this year's dry season would likely herald a severe spike in forest fires in Sumatra, with toxic haze across the region.